MANSFIEL :'' Fatnot ru "INxDEInDETs." Tho ,orops ,throughout Mansfield shire are nearly alLcut. The wheat crop .is especially, good both: s regards quality and quantity. Oats aroemuch' more plentiful than was ex pected.? It is` at present almost impossible and would be highly injudicioius to hazard an' ii opinion Has to the probable prices in the grain b market. 'Buyers apparently have not made up3tiletir iminds,. and sellers are extremely cautious. A few Ilots of now hay, prime quality;` have changed':hands at £4 per ton. The potato crop exhibits every indication of a plentiful yield. The fruity crops, which in some quarters of the shire'is rather backward, would have proved exceptionally abundant had it not been for the withering influence of the late hot winds. • The farmers are all most anxious to get their grain threshed and are on the look out for machines to do their work. We have only-been apprised of the arrival of two as yet in'tho district. The half-yearly election of off...

0 TO ADVERTISERS. - ,-4dvortisements cannot be'-rithdraini bifore then time expires for which they havo been prdered. In cases whero'tho number of insr tions is nbot specified the advertisei'onts will be insrted till countermanded,; ald charg&amp;d ac 4ordiidgly. Quarterly advertisoments'will be con.tiuously.inserted unless a written orier to stop them'is sent... , :: r-:

i-fANSFIELD POLIOE COUIRT. Sateurda?b, Janiary s8· (Before Messrs. Smith and Kitchen.) Sargood and'Co. v. W. Carey.-Illegal detention of a horse. Mr. Thompson,' a traveller in the employment of the plaintiffs, showed a receipt for the horse, which together with an nmfidavit declaring the. horse : to have been in their possessioi previous to. the time When do fondant stated he lost the animal, proved the defendant to bo mistaken as to'the identity of the home. Horse ordered to be restored. Police v. Goulding.-To shllow cause why a quantity of liquor found in his possession should not be forfeited, he having no license to sell the same. Postponed till the 15th instant. Police v. D. teardon.-Breach of the. pence on the :I 3rd instant. Constable James and two of Mr: Kelson's employvs swore that defesdant was noisy and fighting . at thelRoyal Iiotel. The defendant, instead of endea vouring to disprove this evidence, attempted to fix a eharge of nsoaulet on the police, lie was severely cu...

Oir Talr, DECEMBIE a'MAILS z ' 1? FlOM EUROPE, ,-",(BY ErECTRIO TELEGRAPH.) .c F =tLornoir; December3: 8. J, The,,latest'inteligene from Paris 'states 1 thra't:1561`aiiie~rs "of tiWe ftOhamber.of Depu. ties had given in their adhosion to.the qpro.) gramme promulgated by M. Olivieri' Thls' insists on an amelioration ofithe lawirolative _to the public safety ;,tho' revision;of the aloe tors iTi a'aitd sho-atiolitionli of?th ea ordit nances which indemnify Government officeors agiifst. prosacutioun.r Itrisunder.tood .that, the Constitutional ppary willhave',a, working majority in the Chamber. ,;. " President Grant;had,delivered the custoe mary message to Congress. The message recl,mmonds.the gradual.return to specie pay. ments;` the reduction of the taxation.. The President also states his approval of the finan cial policy being'pursued by the Secretary to the Treasury, and gives it as his' opinion that the bonds. not falliingdue will be re placed by bonds bearing interest at the rate ...

MR. GI ADS'rCO E'E AT' TuI.i LORI MAYOR'S IANQUET. The inno;nr-al" inoqut oof tho Tnr1i Ma'tyr o'. London took place on the evening:of the 10Ot. November, at Guildhall. .Momhoers of the Ministry, foreign ambuassdors, and a largro iiandI distinguished companty wore present. , Mr Gl-d stone responded to thoe toa.t or'" `lii M?jaity's 'M?nisters"in a long speech. Hlo returned lthanks for the honour, and sdl' the good feoling of c'tizens towards the' Govornment was owing to the indications of the common sentiment porwvd ing the land. Relerring to Inelan1, ho arlid it was melancholy, to" be compelled to confess than' au. island that iwe had govothned 700 years hadl not fu:filled the conrditions of a civilised ceo-l munity-not yet 'been brounlit' into" harmony. with our laws' and institutions. Society here is politiclly discasole. We'o eo8' peopleo of noble capacity and quick suotseltihilltioe, whoso hearts inr many cases 'do not' beat with a warmnatinch mulet to sister countries; and who...

TIuiuahed Wiaekiy BENALLA, RFRID,.Y, JA?N. 21, 1870. TE ,Qovernmoent 'of' this vYigorous offshoot from the parent stom have done, and are still doing, so much for the benefit of th people byextonding the blessings of heap and, rapid. postal-aid' t?lographio communication,.; that wyo feel almost to blush at having'occaaton'to say a word against them on thisa -ecoie. Yet we are boand to do so, and to tax tho",heat of the, 'Postal: departmient with hirving dooe a veo foolish thing, "altlioug oen a not very large scale. Still, it is' large to 'us as a die. trict, aa4 in that light only can we regard it, We?: uide .to tte latest alterations that have bee! effected in despatching the Cobram mails. We say "'latest," bicaise it has bee the fashion;.for the ilast eight or ten years, to shift" the times of departure and arrival 'of this; mail eo fequently that people now need to ask' every, time they go to the Post-office to trsmit letters or papers when the mail is dscotched in that directio...

LATEST NIE WS (BYYELEOTRIO TELEGRAPH.) E (Pea GREvxEnas TELxEoAC COMPwr.) MEfLiOuRE, Jan. 20. A. goodly anus bir of iMinisters and thoir supportore havo gone Yto andhuret, to attotnd the banquet to be given this evening in their honour at Eaglelhawk;, I i? eoxpooted to be a groat ucceas ;re .= ý ieif ' ' i Thero is nothing further political. Delouetol, a Fre nohmarrwiod brought uip to-day for: assaultieng a young girl, but was discharged, the giras statement being totally unreliable. Tho:e mail detamncd:wivseisignalled off the Otway at '2 p.m., and will reoach the Bay Arrived: -Xirk1aan oiem Londona - ; ' WAR, · .. ,'. n J uxmoorn, ?an. 20. A blaokfelloe wie throwniwhlilo breaking in a horsoe to-day,:i and died ,within half-an hour of the oceurrence. Eanwoirri6uxooo Jran 20. Last ovoning,, a young rvoman was taken with a sovero fit of coughing in the street, and was conveoyed to the first house wheore she died ten minutes afterwards of asphyxian;

MELtOUlIN G., (0no0 OUR OwN -- oREcrONeDENiT.) The w,,ther'hoss boen extremely hit and sultry during the!last 'few- day' 'he' hot winds blowinig i?ilt great fierceness and dust bei ii dnecid dly in the ascLn lnt. Mintters politicil ire vcry qui t ;'nothinr has yet .transpiraJ as to who will fill the vacancies in the Cabinetr. It wns.rumoured last night thitt Mr. Aspinidl rwould retire fuint the represiontationr of St. Kildi, aid thus malko r.iim for so e, of tho boldest of the sup porter s-of tlhe Ministry, but this is most likely lonily one of the usual canards so fro. quently indulged in. If something definite be not done biefore the House smeets,ý,the Ministry will present a very aorry appear ance eso far asiheTreasury beaches are con cerned. Some excitement is beginning to astowitself among oontractorse about the works for the Nirtb.-Eastern Rallway, and we may expect to have a good loany tenderers,for the vari ous-; contrasot. Ibhe :bridges at Seymour, Benalla,'and ? VaSignratt...